Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept on ships in Hong Kong awaiting permission to go ashore. In Hong Kong, picnickers sail with silent embarrassment past the Skyluck, with its 2,664 Vietnamese survivors and its beseeching banners, HAVE MERCY ON US. In a sense these are the lucky ones, because they have not been lost at sea. At least...
...Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., and the Steelworkers Union in 1974, charging that he had been illegally excluded from a training program for higher paying skilled jobs, such as electrician and repairman, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. Though Weber won in two lower courts, he lost in the high court. By a 5-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that employers can indeed give blacks special preference for jobs that were traditionally all white. Whether or not it has had discriminatory job practices in the past, a company can use affirmative-action programs to remedy "manifest racial...
Civil rights leaders cheered the decision. Said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP: "Had we lost this case, the cause of affirmative action would have been set back ten years." The reaction in many boardrooms was relief. Before the ruling, employers were caught in a bind. If they gave minorities a break to remedy racial imbalance in hiring, they risked suits from rejected whites like Weber. But if they had a racially imbalanced work force and did nothing about it, they risked getting sued by minorities as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); they also stood...
...complex case was a charge that Kodak abused its dominant position when it launched its 110 Instamatic camera in 1972. The camera used a special-size film that came in an easy-to-install cartridge. Other camera makers were riled because they were caught by surprise and lost sales during the time it took to develop models that could use that cartridge. Berkey argued that Kodak had exploited its dominance in film manufacturing to give its Instamatic an unfair advantage over competitors and that it should have told its competitors in advance about the 110 system...
Suddenly, a shrill alarm shatters the control room's silence. Red lights flash on the instrument panel. One of the reactor's steam condensers has lost its vacuum, causing a turbine "trip," or shutoff. No longer is the reactor able to shed heat produced by its radioactive core. Ominously its temperature climbs, threatening to boil away the coolant. Unless something is done fast, there may be a meltdown, spilling lethal radioactive gases...